They aren't dumping people because they predict a downturn, they are dumping people in costly western countries and hiring in cheaper countries. It is more of a cost restructure to do the same (or more work) but with significantly cheaper resources thereby giving them there targetted increase in profitability. Not saying it is good or that it will work, but purely on the accounting side it is a pretty basic cost reduction concept.
"We're going to fire you today so we can hire you back tomorrow to do the same work on half the pay" or "we're going to fire you so we can hire the new CEO's son into the same position" are not.
those are certainly arsehat reasons to fire someone, but I would argue that really that is their right it is their money and their business, if they want to run it into the ground it is their right, just as it would be the employees right not to work there for half the pay.
As others have pointed out, the/. summary is highly misleading, the article is about heat at overclocked speeds, The CPU's disipate heat and use less power quite happily at normal operating clock speeds,
I ran into the same problem early last year, I installed some games on my laptop when going away as I knew I would have no internet connectivity thinking steam would let me play offline as after all they were single player games and steam said they permitted offline play, only too find of the 8 games I installed NONE of them would work without an internet connection to steam. Turns out it was a steam bug at the time, but to say steam DRM is unintrusive is definitely wrong.
Lobbying will do little to nothing unless valve can show a business case that involves a decent profit vs the risk/investment for other companies to develop and release for linux. It simply is not enough to say pretty please.
20K is pretty well chump change when it comes to time. a professional security code auditor will charge you that for 2 weeks of work. If they do manage to get people collecting then they have found an incredibly cheap way to find security bugs.
Your post is spot on. I started life as a programmer, As my salary increased and my skills got better and better I gradually became too expensive to use on most programming gigs in my company and have slowly been transitioned into the design/Architecture/consulting side, I haven't written anything more complex than some proof of concept stuff in over 2 years now with the occasional assist on some complex debugging (25 years of software development). Many times I miss the dev process, but not so much that I would take a pay cut to go back to it, dealing witht he big picture can be enjoyable too as is biatch slapping young coders when they make unrealistic estimates and stupid coding decisions.
That's just BS. Apple makes a half truth "A Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers.", The second part of the statement is an out and out lie, there is no possible reading of the second half of the statement that can be taken as factual. "That’s thanks to built-in defenses in Mac OS X that keep you safe, without any work on your part." This is a LIE. They are safe from windows malware because OS.X doesn't run windows programs, there is no built-in defense keeping a Mac user safe. Even if you ignore the outright lie the whole statement is misleading to the people that malware defense is most valuable too, i.e. the uneducated user, the one that doesnt't know why OS.X can't get a windows virus. Personally I am suprised the false advertising laws haven't jumped up and bitten them in the arse on that statement in many countries.
Well really if they fixed it, then it is an acknowledgement that their was an issue and at the least they should be liable for compensation. What compensation plans did Apple Announce when they fixed this? if the plaintiff has been compensated for the money then your right he it is just performing extortion, if not then Apple potentially has a case to answer. When you have done something wrong, simply not doing the same thing wrong in the future does not excuse you for past transgressions.
I was on a Jury for 6 weeks in a murder trial a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly suprised to find the Judge basically bitch slapped the prosecution or defense any time they tried to make a witness give a yes/no answer when the witness clearly believed it could not be legitimately answered as such and then would proceed to allow the witness to answer how they deemed appropriate.
Manager : We would like to use one of your patents to sue our competitors for X amount
Engineer : I am sorry my ethics don't allow me to do that
Manager : We will cut you in for X million of the proceeds
Engineer : Where do I sign.
I think you would find an abundant supply of volunteers that would not remotely care about wanted legal comeback, even if there was a very high risk of loss of life. Don't underestimate peoples willingness to risk everything simply to be the first pioneer and go down in history. Hell I would volunteer even with a maybe a 25% chance of death and I am sure many would go with much higher odds of death.
features fail and bugs occur in rewrites, it happens all the time and should be expected. However missing IPv6 functionality??? if that isn't a showstopper for a release what the hell do they classify as a bug that prevents them from shipping? To put it in your terms, it would be like Adobe releasing the next photoshop without any JPG and GIF support.
And how exactly do you avoid google? try monitoring what your browser is doing for many web sites. You will see ads from google, google analytics etc all being accessed when you never typed in a single google address. The only means to avoid them is to go out of your way to block every URL they own/.control.
Did you even bother to read what the article was about? The issue is not getting staff, it is getting staff to the data center. Transport will be an utter nightmare during the olympics.
Why is it ridiculous, google operate an Australian website with Australian advertising, why shouldn't they be required to obey Australian laws in those circumstances? All advertising is subject to the advertising laws regardless of medium. The ACCC tends to be one of the better agencies that applies the law equally to all, they regularly are cracking down on both local and international companies that breach the false/misleading advertising laws. They even tend to initially warn companies of potential breaches and only take action when warnings are ignored (eg. Google and Apple were both warned prior to action being taken).
Google is an advertising company, therefore google must obey the advertising laws of the associated countries. In Australia the ACCC is the agency that chases down breaches of the advertising law. You will find an equivalent in just about every country.
Actually you are acting like a whiny cunt. Just like CSIRO the American government doesn't give its inventions/innovations/patents away for free either. Mind you I am sure all the countries around the world will be very happy to hear that you have decided that the US will now be forgoing all royalties they have been collecting. It will be much appreciated, and when this happens I think you will find many other governments will reciprocate.
However, they're a government-funded agency, they should be creating technology for the good of all citizens of the world and making that technology available for free.
Not with my Tax dollars thankyou very much. They can develop stuff for the Australian people only or they better damn well be charging foreign entities for it while they are using my money to develop it.
That Chart actually shows part of the problem, but even it is being generous. Notice the net income is basically flatlining rather than growing. There stock price is also still priced at a PE of 18+ which needs growth to justify it. Now add in the fact that they have a NEGATIVE sales growth of something like 20% and a NEGATIVE income growth of around 15% and you have a company in very serious trouble.
I don't get the "should have a quad core phone" thing. Sure more power is great, but honestly the WP7.5 phones don't suffer the same sluggishness that necessitates the quad core phones for android and to a less extent the iphone. Especially when more powerful seems to come hand in hand with less battery life. Personally I would sacrifise a lot of the power in my smart phone for it to work well but with far better battery life.
that is some pretty damn special magazine you were reading. Given Os/2 2.0 was around 1991/92 (forget the exact year). Hell OS/2 v3 was out by 94. So even if you were mistaken and talking about v3, you had to be at a time at least a year or more before win95 even had a release date.
Vista, perhaps the most universally hated version of windows in the last decade still has a higher market share to this day than ANY non windows based desktop OS. So even if win 8 ends up being a universal flop it is still likely to trounce any version of Mac/linux in actual market share. So unless you think it would also be a bright idea to not write desktop apps for the Mac or for linux then I would suggest you are the one not making much sense.
Most xbox games aren't actually region locked. For instance I buy many of my games from the US/Asia and sometimes the UK and I play them all happily on my Xbox in Australia. Some of the online content for games though is locked to specific regions (well at least they don't publish the content into regions where the game is supposedly not available).
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They aren't dumping people because they predict a downturn, they are dumping people in costly western countries and hiring in cheaper countries. It is more of a cost restructure to do the same (or more work) but with significantly cheaper resources thereby giving them there targetted increase in profitability. Not saying it is good or that it will work, but purely on the accounting side it is a pretty basic cost reduction concept.
"We're going to fire you today so we can hire you back tomorrow to do the same work on half the pay" or "we're going to fire you so we can hire the new CEO's son into the same position" are not.
those are certainly arsehat reasons to fire someone, but I would argue that really that is their right it is their money and their business, if they want to run it into the ground it is their right, just as it would be the employees right not to work there for half the pay.
As others have pointed out, the /. summary is highly misleading, the article is about heat at overclocked speeds, The CPU's disipate heat and use less power quite happily at normal operating clock speeds,
I ran into the same problem early last year, I installed some games on my laptop when going away as I knew I would have no internet connectivity thinking steam would let me play offline as after all they were single player games and steam said they permitted offline play, only too find of the 8 games I installed NONE of them would work without an internet connection to steam. Turns out it was a steam bug at the time, but to say steam DRM is unintrusive is definitely wrong.
Lobbying will do little to nothing unless valve can show a business case that involves a decent profit vs the risk/investment for other companies to develop and release for linux. It simply is not enough to say pretty please.
20K is pretty well chump change when it comes to time. a professional security code auditor will charge you that for 2 weeks of work. If they do manage to get people collecting then they have found an incredibly cheap way to find security bugs.
Your post is spot on. I started life as a programmer, As my salary increased and my skills got better and better I gradually became too expensive to use on most programming gigs in my company and have slowly been transitioned into the design/Architecture/consulting side, I haven't written anything more complex than some proof of concept stuff in over 2 years now with the occasional assist on some complex debugging (25 years of software development). Many times I miss the dev process, but not so much that I would take a pay cut to go back to it, dealing witht he big picture can be enjoyable too as is biatch slapping young coders when they make unrealistic estimates and stupid coding decisions.
That's just BS. Apple makes a half truth "A Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers.", The second part of the statement is an out and out lie, there is no possible reading of the second half of the statement that can be taken as factual. "That’s thanks to built-in defenses in Mac OS X that keep you safe, without any work on your part." This is a LIE. They are safe from windows malware because OS.X doesn't run windows programs, there is no built-in defense keeping a Mac user safe. Even if you ignore the outright lie the whole statement is misleading to the people that malware defense is most valuable too, i.e. the uneducated user, the one that doesnt't know why OS.X can't get a windows virus. Personally I am suprised the false advertising laws haven't jumped up and bitten them in the arse on that statement in many countries.
Well really if they fixed it, then it is an acknowledgement that their was an issue and at the least they should be liable for compensation. What compensation plans did Apple Announce when they fixed this? if the plaintiff has been compensated for the money then your right he it is just performing extortion, if not then Apple potentially has a case to answer. When you have done something wrong, simply not doing the same thing wrong in the future does not excuse you for past transgressions.
I was on a Jury for 6 weeks in a murder trial a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly suprised to find the Judge basically bitch slapped the prosecution or defense any time they tried to make a witness give a yes/no answer when the witness clearly believed it could not be legitimately answered as such and then would proceed to allow the witness to answer how they deemed appropriate.
Manager : We would like to use one of your patents to sue our competitors for X amount
Engineer : I am sorry my ethics don't allow me to do that
Manager : We will cut you in for X million of the proceeds
Engineer : Where do I sign.
I think you would find an abundant supply of volunteers that would not remotely care about wanted legal comeback, even if there was a very high risk of loss of life. Don't underestimate peoples willingness to risk everything simply to be the first pioneer and go down in history. Hell I would volunteer even with a maybe a 25% chance of death and I am sure many would go with much higher odds of death.
features fail and bugs occur in rewrites, it happens all the time and should be expected. However missing IPv6 functionality??? if that isn't a showstopper for a release what the hell do they classify as a bug that prevents them from shipping? To put it in your terms, it would be like Adobe releasing the next photoshop without any JPG and GIF support.
And how exactly do you avoid google? try monitoring what your browser is doing for many web sites. You will see ads from google, google analytics etc all being accessed when you never typed in a single google address. The only means to avoid them is to go out of your way to block every URL they own/.control.
Did you even bother to read what the article was about? The issue is not getting staff, it is getting staff to the data center. Transport will be an utter nightmare during the olympics.
Their electronics division is not doing "quite well" at all. They are losing money hand over fist in Televisions
Why is it ridiculous, google operate an Australian website with Australian advertising, why shouldn't they be required to obey Australian laws in those circumstances? All advertising is subject to the advertising laws regardless of medium. The ACCC tends to be one of the better agencies that applies the law equally to all, they regularly are cracking down on both local and international companies that breach the false/misleading advertising laws. They even tend to initially warn companies of potential breaches and only take action when warnings are ignored (eg. Google and Apple were both warned prior to action being taken).
Google is an advertising company, therefore google must obey the advertising laws of the associated countries. In Australia the ACCC is the agency that chases down breaches of the advertising law. You will find an equivalent in just about every country.
Actually you are acting like a whiny cunt. Just like CSIRO the American government doesn't give its inventions/innovations/patents away for free either. Mind you I am sure all the countries around the world will be very happy to hear that you have decided that the US will now be forgoing all royalties they have been collecting. It will be much appreciated, and when this happens I think you will find many other governments will reciprocate.
However, they're a government-funded agency, they should be creating technology for the good of all citizens of the world and making that technology available for free.
Not with my Tax dollars thankyou very much. They can develop stuff for the Australian people only or they better damn well be charging foreign entities for it while they are using my money to develop it.
That Chart actually shows part of the problem, but even it is being generous. Notice the net income is basically flatlining rather than growing. There stock price is also still priced at a PE of 18+ which needs growth to justify it. Now add in the fact that they have a NEGATIVE sales growth of something like 20% and a NEGATIVE income growth of around 15% and you have a company in very serious trouble.
I don't get the "should have a quad core phone" thing. Sure more power is great, but honestly the WP7.5 phones don't suffer the same sluggishness that necessitates the quad core phones for android and to a less extent the iphone. Especially when more powerful seems to come hand in hand with less battery life. Personally I would sacrifise a lot of the power in my smart phone for it to work well but with far better battery life.
that is some pretty damn special magazine you were reading. Given Os/2 2.0 was around 1991/92 (forget the exact year). Hell OS/2 v3 was out by 94. So even if you were mistaken and talking about v3, you had to be at a time at least a year or more before win95 even had a release date.
Vista, perhaps the most universally hated version of windows in the last decade still has a higher market share to this day than ANY non windows based desktop OS. So even if win 8 ends up being a universal flop it is still likely to trounce any version of Mac/linux in actual market share. So unless you think it would also be a bright idea to not write desktop apps for the Mac or for linux then I would suggest you are the one not making much sense.
Most xbox games aren't actually region locked. For instance I buy many of my games from the US/Asia and sometimes the UK and I play them all happily on my Xbox in Australia. Some of the online content for games though is locked to specific regions (well at least they don't publish the content into regions where the game is supposedly not available).